Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of colour and space march across the foreground of the work. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to define the colours, which therefore stand alone. An important part of this particular image is that it is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion.
This work is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of spring and winter where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is the eternal or spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]